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Epic reunions and not-to-be-missed intimate conversations will take center stage during the 17th annual Tribeca Film Festival running April 18-29. Tribeca will celebrate the anniversaries of Schindler’s List, Scarface , and In the Soup , bringing three classics back to the big screen. Director...

The ADVERTISING Club of New York’s 2018 International ANDY Awards, the first advertising creative award show of the season, and the first advertising award show to allow others to see inside the jury room, has announced this year’s winners. McCann New York won the show’s top honor, claiming the...

Chris Karabas has joined the staff team of RSA Films as executive producer. Karabas, who previously worked with RSA as Midwest representative, brings a valuable combination of sales and creativity to the company’s diverse offering. In his new role, Karabas will collaborate with clients and A-list...

Hue & Cry, a production company that specializes in design and animation, announced it has completed the process to become a fully independent studio. “Having been incubated inside The Martin Agency, and having them as our biggest client, has been amazing--we couldn’t have accomplished what we...

Alma Har’el--founder of the Free The Bid initiative designed to open up opportunities for female filmmakers, and a nominee this year for the DGA Award as best commercial director of the year on the strength of P&G’s Winter Olympics piece, “Love Over Bias”--is set to direct the feature film...

Lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic criticized Facebook and its chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, after reports surfaced that another company, Cambridge Analytica, improperly harvested information from 50 million Facebook users. A British lawmaker accused Facebook on Sunday of misleading...

Not since "Avatar" has a box-office hit had the kind of staying power of "Black Panther." Ryan Coogler's comic-book sensation on Sunday became the first film since James Cameron's 2009 smash to top the weekend box office five straight weekends. The Disney release grossed $27 million in ticket sales...

On Monday, AT&T squares off against the federal government in a trial that could shape how you get — and how much you pay for — streaming TV and movies. AT&T says it needs to gobble up Time Warner if it's to have a chance against the likes of Amazon, Netflix and Google in the rapidly...

An ad on Snapchat asking users if they'd rather "Slap Rihanna" or "Punch Chris Brown" has spawned widespread outrage, including from the singer herself, and brought profuse apologies from the company behind the visual-messaging app. Snapchat said it is investigating how the ad for a mobile video...

Johan Eghammer has joined CP+B in Boulder as executive creative director. He spent the past 23 years at Swedish agency Forsman & Bodenfors (F&B), where he was creative director, sr. partner and member of the board. As a founder of the F&B/Stockholm office, which opened in 2001, Eghammer...